Trilight Zone

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The default editor that ships with almost every distribution of Linux is Vi. This editor is slightly advanced and confuses most newbies. We suggest starting off with Pico, a more simple editor. Pico is part of the Pine software package which can be downloaded at http://www.washington.edu/pine (It might already be installed on your system). To edit a file with pico, simply run:
pico filename

This will open up the file and allow to you edit it. At the bottom of the screen you will notice the various commands that you have access to with Pico. If you wish to save the file and exit, simply hold down the control key and hit the x key on your keyboard.